title: Engineering antibody heavy chain CDR3 to create a phage display Fab library rich in antibodies that bind charged carbohydrates.
abstract: A number of small charged carbohydrate moieties have been associated with inflammation and cancer. However, the development of therapeutic Abs targeting these moieties has been hampered by their low immunogenicity and their structural relationship to self-Ag. We report the design of an Ab repertoire enriched in Abs binding to small charged carbohydrates and the construction of a human Fab phagemid library, "FAB-CCHO." This library combines L chain Ig sequences from human donors and H chain synthetic diversity constructed in key Ag contact sites in CDRs 1, 2, and 3 of the human framework V(H)3-23. The H chain CDR3 has been engineered to enrich the library in Abs that bind charged carbohydrates by the introduction of basic residues at specific amino acid locations. These residues were selected on the basis of anti-carbohydrate Ab sequence alignment. The success of this design is demonstrated by the isolation of phage Abs against charged carbohydrate therapeutic target Ags such as sulfated sialyl-Lewis X glycan and heparan sulfate.
authors.affiliation: Dyax SA, Liege, Belgium.
authors.forename: Sonia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schoonbroodt
authors.forename: Mieke
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Steukers
authors.forename: Malini
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Viswanathan
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Frans
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Timmermans
authors.forename: Anita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wehnert
authors.forename: Minh
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: Robert Charles
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Ladner
authors.forename: René M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Hoet
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D000916:Antibody Diversity; D017104:Bacteriophage M13 / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology; D001666:Binding Sites, Antibody; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D022801:Complementarity Determining Regions / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D015195:Drug Design; D006801:Humans; D007140:Immunoglobulin Fab Fragments / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D007143:Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D007983:Lewis Blood Group Antigens; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology*; D019151:Peptide Library; D015202:Protein Engineering / Q000379:methods*; D055672:Static Electricity
chemical_list: D022801:Complementarity Determining Regions; D007140:Immunoglobulin Fab Fragments; D007143:Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains; D007983:Lewis Blood Group Antigens; C494219:Lewis a oligosaccharide; D009844:Oligosaccharides; D019151:Peptide Library